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** ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY, MAY 12–FILE ** Series star Kelsey Grammer, right, as Dr. Frasier Crane talks with co-stars David Hyde Pierce as his brother Niles, left, and John Mahoney during filming of the final episode of “Frasier,” on a set at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, in this March 23, 2004 file photo. The final episode of the NBC series titled “Good Night, Seattle,” is scheduled to air May 13. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, FIle) NYET378 0394175573
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A reboot of the great Seattle sitcom is on the way. Here's why ‘Frasier,’ now 30, was so good

Thirty years later, and ahead of a reboot, the set-in-Seattle show is still one of the greatest sitcoms. Here's why — and our critic's Top 10 episodes.

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Yakima breakout stars Yahritza y Su Esencia are part of a new generation putting their own spin on regional Mexican music.
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How 3 siblings from Yakima became one of the hottest Latin music groups around

Local author Susanna Ryan meets 8-year-old golden retriever, Luna Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Seattle. Ryan’s new book, “Dog Days: Your Furbaby Memory Book,” is publishing in the coming weeks.
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How dogs helped ‘Seattle Walk Report’ cartoonist get her groove back VIEW

Wa Na Wari’s Walk the Block returns for its third year Saturday, Sept. 30.
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Here's a chance to see Seattle's excellent Black art, music and more in one day

Seattle Symphony, conducted by Ludovic Morlot, on opening night, Sept. 21, of its 2023-24 season.
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Seattle Symphony’s opening night was impressive. Where was the audience?

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“American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper” by Daniel Stashower

8 fresh paperbacks to kick off fall reading season VIEW

Great reads

An interactive guide to best books from the past few years

Movies

This image released by Apple TV+ shows Eve Hewson, left, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a scene from “Flora and Son.” (Apple TV+ via AP) NYET124 NYET124

Review: ‘Flora and Son’ an utterly irresistible emotional earworm WATCH

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This image released by Apple TV+ shows Eve Hewson, left, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a scene from “Flora and Son.” (Apple TV+ via AP) NYET124 NYET124

Review: ‘Flora and Son’ an utterly irresistible emotional earworm WATCH

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Members of SAG-AFTRA, which represents actors and remains on strike, pickets in front of Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles, on Sept. 26, 2023. After 148 days on strike, television and movie writers will begin returning to work on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times) XNYT0177 XNYT0177

Hollywood actors to resume negotiations with studios next week, as protracted writers strike ends VIEW

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Dedra D. Woods and Yusef Seevers in “Last Drive to Dodge” by Andrew Lee Creech at Taproot Theatre.

Seattle’s Taproot Theatre creates magic with ‘Last Drive to Dodge’

Fall Arts Guide

The most exciting concerts, shows, movies and more in the Seattle area in fall 2022

Classical Music

Seattle Symphony, conducted by Ludovic Morlot, on opening night, Sept. 21, of its 2023-24 season.

Seattle Symphony’s opening night was impressive. Where was the audience?

Visual Arts

Dancer Prasti Purdum performs an excerpt of Filipino American choreographer Bennyroyce Royon’s “Homebound/Alaala” for the 2022 Palengke at Filipino Community of Seattle.

5 Seattle community events to kick off October

Pacific NW Magazine

Folk singer Woody Guthrie wrote “Roll On, Columbia, Roll On” about the Columbia River (this is the Grand Coulee Dam on the river in Eastern Washington), and it was approved as the official Washington state folk song in 1987. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times, 2008)

The stories behind Washington’s official state symbols

Dance

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Angelica Generosa and Lucien Postlewaite in Jiri Kylian’s Petite Mort. PNB opens its 2023-24 season with a triple-bill of works by Kylian and Alexander Ekman, onstage at Seattle Center’s McCaw Hall September 22 – October 1, 2023 (and streaming October 5 – 9.) For tickets and information, contact the PNB Box Office, 206.441.2424 or PNB.org.

Pacific Northwest Ballet opens 2023-24 season with two sublime works